The Meeting

I love the way my fisheye lens manages to squeeze so much into the frame. This was a quick shot I grabbed as I was walking into the room where a bonsai meeting I attended this weekend was being held.

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Linking up with The Weekend in Black and White and Black and White View.

Red Car

While I've been experimenting with editing some of my old photos I discovered a very simple way to do selective desaturation. It doesn't look good for every photo, but I kind of like how this one worked out.

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Linking up to Photo Friday.

The Ceiling

I've been having fun playing with my fish-eye converter this week. I love the way it turns this ceiling into something almost abstract.

The World is Round

I love to show a world that is different from reality and one of my favourite ways of distorting it is using a fish-eye lens. When shooting at the sky however, lighting issues come into play and I've been playing around with this photo for a couple of days trying to get a natural looking version. Somehow I can't seem to get it quite right.

In the end, as is so often the case, I preferred the result in black and white.

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Linking up with Skywatch Friday.

The Swimming Pool

This photo was taken with a fish-eye converter on the front of my lens. No distortion was added in Photoshop.

It was a hot summer day but the sky was grey, typical of summer afternoons in Johannesburg. The weather can change from bright sunshine to heavy cloud and thunderstorms really quickly. Somehow the colour version of this photo didn't really convey the weather on that day so I went for a moody black and white conversion.

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Linking to Wednesday Water.